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Luigi Mangione, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Sam Bankman-Fried To Share Hellish Brooklyn Jail
Metropolitan Detention Center is fabled for its difficult conditions and is notorious even among wardens. It is depicted as one of the most "troubled" facilities in the Bureau of Prisons, with issues ranging from overcrowding, violence and more.
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On Camera: US Killer Escapes By 'Crab Walking' Up A Prison Wall
A Chester County Prison surveillance camera captured fugitive Danelo Cavalcante escaping from the facility on August 31.
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Oldest Prisoner At Guantanamo Bay Camp To Be Extradited Soon: Pakistan
A 73-year-old man from Pakistan who is the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility at the US base in Cuba will soon return to the country, the government informed the Senate on Friday.
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'Blind Sheikh' Omar Abdel Rahman Dies In US Prison Facility
Blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian-born cleric linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, died Saturday of natural causes in a US prison facility, the Justice Department said. He was 78 years old.
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4 Hostages Taken, 2 Released At US's Delaware Prison
Inmates at a Delaware prison were still holding two correctional staff members hostage on Wednesday night after releasing two others during an uprising at the facility, state officials said.
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US Releases 4 More Guantanamo Prisoners
The Pentagon announced that four more inmates were transferred out of the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, marking the final such transfer under President Barack Obama and leaving the facility's population at 41.
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Barack Obama Slams Congress For Blocking Guantanamo Closure
US President Barack Obama delivered an angry parting shot at Congress Thursday, berating Republicans for blocking his efforts to close the military prison facility at Guantanamo Bay.
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Barack Obama Plans To Close Guantanamo Proposes 13 Potential US Transfer Sites
A Pentagon plan to close the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would transfer detainees to any of 13 potential sites on US soil but does not identify the facilities or endorse a specific one, administration officials said today.
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In an Islamic State Prison, He Had No Hope. But Then He Heard the Drones.
Two prisoners held in the facility described life in an Islamic State prison and the mission that set them free. The operation, which a Kurdish commando also detailed, freed 69 detainees and was the first confirmed time that U.S. troops had directly accompanied Iraqi forces on the battlefield in the fight against the Islamic State.
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Why You Shouldn't Be Surprised That Prisoners Crushed Harvard's Debate Team
Last month, a debate team of three inmates with violent criminal records defeated a team of three Harvard University undergraduates.
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US Lawmakers Await Barack Obama Plan to Shutter Guantanamo
US lawmakers, frustrated at President Barack Obama's failure to submit a plan to shutter Guantanamo, announced on Tuesday they will bar for another year any detainee transfers from the controversial prison to American soil.
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Second New York Prison Escapee Shot And Captured: US Media
A convicted murderer who busted out of a maximum-security New York prison three weeks ago has been shot and captured, US media reported Sunday, two days after his fellow escapee was shot dead.
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Escaped New York Convicts Added to 'Most-Wanted' List
US Marshals on Thursday added the two killer convicts who escaped a maximum-security prison two weeks ago to a 15 most-wanted list of "the worst of the worst" fugitives.
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New York Prison Escape Among Decade's Most Audacious Breakouts
The upstate New York prison break of two inmates who squeezed through underground pipes last weekend was among a handful of recent daring escapes by US convicts whom experts describe as ingenious and willing to risk it all to flee a life behind bars.
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US May Keep Secret Prisoners in Custody After Afghan War Exit
The fate of a group of prisoners held in near-total secrecy by U.S. forces at a prison in Afghanistan is hanging in limbo, the facility's commander said, as Washington gropes for options after its legal right to hold them there expires in December.
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Luigi Mangione, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Sam Bankman-Fried To Share Hellish Brooklyn Jail
Metropolitan Detention Center is fabled for its difficult conditions and is notorious even among wardens. It is depicted as one of the most "troubled" facilities in the Bureau of Prisons, with issues ranging from overcrowding, violence and more.
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On Camera: US Killer Escapes By 'Crab Walking' Up A Prison Wall
A Chester County Prison surveillance camera captured fugitive Danelo Cavalcante escaping from the facility on August 31.
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Oldest Prisoner At Guantanamo Bay Camp To Be Extradited Soon: Pakistan
A 73-year-old man from Pakistan who is the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility at the US base in Cuba will soon return to the country, the government informed the Senate on Friday.
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'Blind Sheikh' Omar Abdel Rahman Dies In US Prison Facility
Blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian-born cleric linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, died Saturday of natural causes in a US prison facility, the Justice Department said. He was 78 years old.
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4 Hostages Taken, 2 Released At US's Delaware Prison
Inmates at a Delaware prison were still holding two correctional staff members hostage on Wednesday night after releasing two others during an uprising at the facility, state officials said.
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US Releases 4 More Guantanamo Prisoners
The Pentagon announced that four more inmates were transferred out of the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, marking the final such transfer under President Barack Obama and leaving the facility's population at 41.
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Barack Obama Slams Congress For Blocking Guantanamo Closure
US President Barack Obama delivered an angry parting shot at Congress Thursday, berating Republicans for blocking his efforts to close the military prison facility at Guantanamo Bay.
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Barack Obama Plans To Close Guantanamo Proposes 13 Potential US Transfer Sites
A Pentagon plan to close the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would transfer detainees to any of 13 potential sites on US soil but does not identify the facilities or endorse a specific one, administration officials said today.
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In an Islamic State Prison, He Had No Hope. But Then He Heard the Drones.
Two prisoners held in the facility described life in an Islamic State prison and the mission that set them free. The operation, which a Kurdish commando also detailed, freed 69 detainees and was the first confirmed time that U.S. troops had directly accompanied Iraqi forces on the battlefield in the fight against the Islamic State.
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Why You Shouldn't Be Surprised That Prisoners Crushed Harvard's Debate Team
Last month, a debate team of three inmates with violent criminal records defeated a team of three Harvard University undergraduates.
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US Lawmakers Await Barack Obama Plan to Shutter Guantanamo
US lawmakers, frustrated at President Barack Obama's failure to submit a plan to shutter Guantanamo, announced on Tuesday they will bar for another year any detainee transfers from the controversial prison to American soil.
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Second New York Prison Escapee Shot And Captured: US Media
A convicted murderer who busted out of a maximum-security New York prison three weeks ago has been shot and captured, US media reported Sunday, two days after his fellow escapee was shot dead.
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Escaped New York Convicts Added to 'Most-Wanted' List
US Marshals on Thursday added the two killer convicts who escaped a maximum-security prison two weeks ago to a 15 most-wanted list of "the worst of the worst" fugitives.
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New York Prison Escape Among Decade's Most Audacious Breakouts
The upstate New York prison break of two inmates who squeezed through underground pipes last weekend was among a handful of recent daring escapes by US convicts whom experts describe as ingenious and willing to risk it all to flee a life behind bars.
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US May Keep Secret Prisoners in Custody After Afghan War Exit
The fate of a group of prisoners held in near-total secrecy by U.S. forces at a prison in Afghanistan is hanging in limbo, the facility's commander said, as Washington gropes for options after its legal right to hold them there expires in December.
